For one, here on voat, stories which are critical of Israel/zionism don't get automatically/instanty culled. That alone is a huge difference between here and reddit.

We don't and won't. Watch, look, listen - draw your own conclusions.

Yeah I've subscribed to plenty, my top bar is still the "originals" though.

Apparently you can change this in the settings...gonna go check that out.

I get it. What about they discuss about outside is there problem, how they moderate whatever onsite is public and will eventually expose them.

What if the mods "meet" on some external private IRC to conspire? (honest question, I am here above all because the tupperware-thinking got me tired of reddit)

Reddit admins were complicit in moderator abuse and censorship. The reddit Mod logs that have been released prove that moderator abuse is the rule rather than the exception. They work in secret. They look down on users. They believe their world view is superior to all others and delete opposition view points- and they did it with the support and encouragement of administration. The reddit admins would even take subs away from users that disagreed with them and give the subs to the very mods users were fleeing from. If any view runs contrary to their corrupt narrative, they delete, ban, and harass users across multiple subs.

Voat has adopted a culture of openness, fairness, and sharing. There will no doubt be problems here in the future, but so far voat's admins have been very responsive to user concerns about those who would abuse their power.

Rather soon, every moderator action will be totally public and able to be audited.

That alone is a huge step up from reddit.

There are no default subverses

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Are...are you sure about that?